Dedman v. Porch’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Pineview Farms, Inc. v. A.O. Smith Harvestore, Inc. (1989), Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Tucker (2003)
32 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miller v. Blanton · Clayton v. Wagnon · Swink & Co. v. Carroll McEntee & McGinley, Inc. · McCuistion v. City of Siloam Springs · Midwest Bus Lines, Inc. v. Williams
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unable to find a case which holds that paying a traffic ticket entitles the opposing side to introduce evidence of such as an admission against interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“No record of the forfeiture of a bond or of the conviction of any person for any violation of this subtitle [penalties and enforcement] shall be admissible as evidence in any court in any civil action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We reaffirm our position that the only proper evidence relating to a traffic violation conviction is a party's plea of guilty in open court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.